# History of the Peloponnesian War

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/9780140440393

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/9780140440393.json

![History of the Peloponnesian War](https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin-classics/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war_978-01-4044-039-3.jpg?v=2026-04-23%2004%3A24%3A01)

- Book: [History of the Peloponnesian War](https://www.bookquiver.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war) ([History of the Peloponnesian War.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war.md))
- Authors: [Thucydides](https://www.bookquiver.com/thucydides)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-039-3
- Pages: 656
- Published: 1974-02-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict.